Anyone rewatching Lost on Netflix?

[4LittleSpeckledFrogs]

I can't remember a thing about it from 1st time round so am enthralled again 🤣

1st time I watched it with newborn DS1 and now he's sitting in on bits of episodes with me at 19 years old!

@4LittleSpeckledFrogs Sayid is in The Cleaning Lady on Sky if you want to see him now, still very good looking.

Lost is my favourite programme of all time. I want to watch again, and I will, but I was genuinely gutted when it finished (and I'm in a minority who LOVED the ending and thought it was perfect) and felt like I'd lost a bunch of friends I'd spent so much time with..I have to be ready to pick them up knowing I'm going to lose them again 😭
Yes I'm a total loser 😁

I was absolutely obesssed with Lost on first airing, and, if I'm honest, I still am! I've rewatched 4 times (I think, maybe more) since it originally aired and love that I get something new out of it each time.

To me, it's up there with Twin Peaks (hence username) as amongst the best TV of all time and, like Twin Peaks, I don't think mainstream audiences were ready for it. The move into supernatural territory was quite jarring in both cases and Lost never really suited the episode each week with long season gap model and I'm interested to see what reception it gets now that it's readily availble for binging.

I know it has (many) critics and I definitley wouldn't say that it retained a 100% perfection record during the whole run. There was definitely some filler in there and it was badly affected by the strikes at the time. I also don't really beleive it was being made up as they went along though and it doesn't deserve the harsh critiscm it gets (particularly the final episode), usually from folk who watched season 1 and then tuned in for the finale and didn't understand what was going on. I, personally, am quite critical of the final season as a whole - but not the last episode, which I still think is great. I also still remember the impact of the season 3 finale when it first aired, and then season 4 was by far the strongest - unfortunately so many people had given up by then.

I could talk for hours about Lost, and certainly at the time, I spent more time than is healthy on The Fuselage forum. I remain wedded to the theory that Charles Widmore is his own grandson and expect I'll be babbling on about that on my deathbed. I'll also defend the ending, the polar bears, the supernatural and fantasy elements to the end but will forever be angry about Jin and Sun. Did anyone else have the Bad Twin novel?

Like others, I was a big Sawyer fan. Never really liked Jack but I'm not sure we were supposed to. I'm conflicted about Sawyer these days, finding him quite problematic in ways which were originally supposed to be funny and endearing but, at the same time, I like that he was a very realistic character in terms of his opinions and prejudices.

Love this thread. I'm also convinced that, more than any other TV show, Lost could be rebooted successfully and has been set up nicely for that. I hope it happens.

Trying to write this post with enough info for the fellow fans and hopefully no outright spoilers for those watching for the first time.

For those that asked about similar series, it looks like Fringe is coming to ITVx on 12th September, I will be watching this again also.

I didn't watch 'Lost' the first time round and I've tried to watch it several times. I've been watching it again recently as I've been poorly and have got up to Series 3 (episode 3) this time round. But I'm running out of steam. Is it worth continuing? I'm finding the 'WTF is going on' aspect of it irritating. And there are sooooooooooooooo many episodes to plough through. Is life too short or should I push through and get to the end?

I'd suggest persevering at least until the end of S3. If that cliffhanger doesn't then make you want to keep going then it's safe to say it's not for you.

Thanks for your thoughts. It’s such a long way to the end of the season. And all of a sudden new people from the planet crash are getting involved with things so there’s even more to keep track of. Sigh. I do hate to give up, though….

I mostly loved Lost.

Thought it lost it's way a bit but thought that the ending was ok.

Just looked at imdb-121 episodes!!!

I'm a 1/4 through season 3 and given up. Got bored but really want to know the ending. Not sure I can manage it if it's going this slow.
I remember first time around I gave up half way through S1 so I've done much better.
Is it worth perseverance?

I managed 5 episodes but finding it really boring so am giving up.

If Fringe comes out, I'll watch that.

Fringe comes to ITVx on 12th September

Excellent. I watched the first season and remember liking it

I thought I was nearly finished (and was kinda relieved) but just discovered there's a season 6 🤣🤣🤣

There are some ridiculous wigs on this

Spoiler

Sawyer just shot a radio in a submarine

Seriously?

No-one thought that would be an issue? Nothing happened. It annoyed me a lot

I'm up to series 4. I hardly remember anything from the first time found but it's so boring after series 1.

Omg I felt utterly betrayed by Lost, especially the ending. I watched it twice and still didn't understand.

I am at series 5 and I've got to say I'm not loving this as much. I'm still a bit confused about why Jack's dad keeps popping and where Clare has got to.

Jack really gets on my nerves but weirdly despite him being HUGELY problematic I do quite like Sawyer. Locke and Desmond are my favourites though.

Also Ben is such a great villain - love/hate

I'm going away tomorrow in a caravan and was hoping to download some of Lost onto my iPad to carry on watching but it is not available for download, I also tried to download Fringe on ITVx (I have premium) and that didn't allow downloads either, because of licensing. Grr.

@BobnLen

Do you have Disney +?

Currently midway through season 2 and I had forgotten so many things I sort of feel like I'm watching it for the first time again. I genuinely thought Boone was only in it few episodes (clearly didn't leave an impression all those years ago) but he's in it a lot more than that. The 'tail enders' have joined the show now and I'm just loving how barmy it all is! I do have my own theory about it all this time round and I do remember hating the ending, but to be honest I've forgotten what the ending actually was as I think it was so convoluted 😂

I do, but very unfortunately I have the one with ads, free with Tesco at the moment that I can't download on, that finishes on the 18th and I have got a Clubcard no ads voucher I can use after that which allows downloads but I need to do all my downloading now at home or it will go through my phone data on holiday. I bet you can download it on Disney as they probably have the licence. But no worries as I have downloaded From which was recommended on this thread to watch instead and looks like a lot of episodes.

I was obsessed by this for years. Will have to rewatch.

I was cross about the ending. I remember about the time of Season 2 or 3 JJ Abrams was asked if everything could be explained by X. And he said no, and then that was it. I spent 5 years or more saying to DH, no….its not X because JJ Abrams said not. But then I feel I’m never 100% sure I really understood the end, I had to google it back then so it could be explained to me. Still doesn’t all make sense.

I’ve always thought that a lot of the criticism of the last season was from over-invested fans who wouldn’t have been happy whatever happened- very much like with GoT. I haven’t watched it for ages, though, so I’m going to go away and think about your Widmore theory for a bit and get back to you.

I might go away and think about James Sawyer Ford for a bit as well, but that’s my business 😀